The US DoT’s On-Time database is a great place to mine for information on how effective airlines are at managing their business. After all, the core of what airline’s sell is their schedule. Airlines require customers pay 100 cents on…
That the US airline industry is competitive is well established. Even in a consolidated field, the few fight for every customer. We decided to look at just how hard are they competing. Using several data sources, we built a model. …
Our recent post on the costs of arrival delays reported a large estimated number. Perhaps the number was too big to make an impression. After all airline revenues and expenses are in the billions. But what we reduce the numbers…
Looking at the first four months of 2019, we estimate the US airline industry lost $1,891,777,148 from arrival delays. The table below explains how we get to this number. Subscribers can view our updated model here . Flights that land…
Yesterday we reported fuel burn numbers which we called “preliminary”. Today we got confirmation that Spirit Airlines refiled their numbers for 2017, so now we have final numbers. For some time we have been eager to see how the A320neo…
It is interesting to see how US airlines’ traffic patterns evolve over time and the map. In our model we show the origin and destination using heat maps – from green through yellow to red. One quickly gets an idea…